Here’s another one<br /><br />[Verse 1]<br />I beat myself up ‘cause rap<br />We cuss, I don’t care about that<br />Coping mechanism, coping medicine<br />So obsession will hook me since I was in high school<br />I listened to rappers buzzing<br />I moved myself too because then, I didn’t get where I should have been<br />What? What will I become of, man?<br />Rap taught me to go for what I can<br />For critics, it’s good encouragement<br />This is not what they would’ve seen<br />A mic booth they are not working in<br />So, stop, go and listen in<br />I for one can’t stop listening<br />And look past the negatives<br />It’s all music, there are no exceptions<br /><br />Ya can’t kill rap or hip-hop, ever<br /><br />[Verse 2]<br />Hip-hop, what a rich history<br />Since the '70s, rap gave us celebrities<br />Celebrate the knowledge they kick to we<br />Span the globe, kids get it instinctively<br />If it’s clean and it’s not explicit, these fans will listen to it regardlessly<br />Hip-hop head, I fed on rap<br />I’m fed up with anti-rap ideas like it doesn’t help man<br />But when cats can’t get jobs<br />They jump on the rap bandwagon<br />Born in Poorville, poured over here<br />I need this music to breathe<br />I see this music is me<br />This music is harmless<br />So don’t you go saying that it harms us<br /><br />Wait, I’m not done yet<br /><br />[Verse 3]<br />From poverty to consciousness to positive<br />From gangsta shit to the greatest hits from A to Z<br />We’ve come a long way from NYC<br />I’m keeping it up, don’t you start hating me<br />They’ll keep saying the n-word forevermore<br />It ain’t nasty, I said it bad, there’s plenty more where that came from<br />I need a microphone<br />Hearing my voice heals the scabs on my back from lashes<br />I don’t bat eyelashes<br />Rap shatters wine glasses on impact<br />What hurts me is thinking that I’m bad for making rap<br />It’s how I react<br />I tell a story, my feelings, I don’t want approval<br />I don’t care if you disapprove, it is not wrong<br />I will listen to rap until the end<br />Tell you it matters, I know it for certain<br /><br />So if ya don’t like rap<br />Don’t say anything bad about it<br />Just leave it be
